There are 12 ways to get from Greece to Basel by plane, train, bus, or car
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Fly Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to Basel
best- Fly from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia (SKG) to Basel (BSL)plane SKG - BSL
5h 31mCHF 80–216Train, bus
- Take the train from Athens to Thessalonikitrain Ic
- Take the bus from Thessaloníki to Pristinabus
- Take the bus from Pristina to Luzern, Bahnhofbus
- Take the train from Luzern to Basel SBBtrain Ec / ...
28h 35mTrain, bus via Budapest
- Take the train from Athens to Thessalonikitrain Ic
- Take the bus from Thessaloniki to Budapest Hotel Platanusbus
- Take the train from Budapest-Keleti to Zuerich Hbtrain Rjx
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain Ice / ...
34h 58mCHF 225–370Drive 2,298.1 km
- Drive from Athens to Baselcar 2,298.1 km
24h 57mCHF 384–555Fly Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Basel
- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Basel (BSL)plane HER - BSL
5h 44mCHF 104–215Fly Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to Zurich Airport, train
- Fly from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia (SKG) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane SKG - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain
6h 39mCHF 109–277Fly Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Zurich Airport, train
- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane HER - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain
6h 47mCHF 113–376Fly Athens International Airport to Zurich Airport, train
- Fly from Athens International Airport (ATH) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane ATH - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain
7h 10mCHF 110–293Fly Rhodes International Airport to Zurich Airport, train
- Fly from Rhodes International Airport (RHO) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)plane RHO - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Basel SBBtrain
7h 3mCHF 119–317Fly Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to Stuttgart Airport, train
- Fly from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia (SKG) to Stuttgart Airport (STR)plane SKG - STR
- Take the train from Stuttgart Hbf to Karlsruhe Hbftrain
- Take the train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Basel Bad Bftrain
8h 40mCHF 104–328Bus
- Take the bus from Athens to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusavebus
- Take the bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Basel, Bahnhofbus
33h 39mBus via Thessaloníki
- Take the bus from Athens, Leoforou Kifisou - KTEL to Thessaloniki Monastirioubus
- Take the bus from Thessaloníki to Skopje, Transporten Centarbus
- Take the bus from Skopje, Transporten Centar to Basel, Bahnhofbus
36h 35mCHF 97–174
Greece to Basel by train, bus, foot, and tram
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Greece to Basel is to fly and train which costs SFr 110 - SFr 300 and takes 7h 10m.
The fastest way to get from Greece to Basel is to fly which takes 5h 31m and costs SFr 80 - SFr 220.
No, there is no direct bus from Greece to Basel. However, there are services departing from Athens and arriving at Basel, Bahnhof via Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 33h 39m.
The distance between Greece and Basel is 1483 km. The road distance is 2298.1 km.
The best way to get from Greece to Basel without a car is to train and bus which takes 28h 35m and costs .
It takes approximately 5h 31m to get from Greece to Basel, including transfers.
Greece to Basel bus services, operated by Top Lines, depart from Athens station.
The best way to get from Greece to Basel is to fly which takes 5h 31m and costs SFr 80 - SFr 220. Alternatively, you can bus, which costs and takes 33h 39m.
Greece to Basel bus services, operated by Top Lines, arrive at Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave station.
Basel is 1h behind Greece. It is currently 8:22 AM in Greece and 7:22 AM in Basel.
What companies run services between Greece and Basel, Switzerland?
easyJet, Aegean Airlines, and two other airlines fly from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia (SKG) to Basel (BSL) once daily. Alternatively, you can take a bus from Athens to Basel, Bahnhof via Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave in around 33h 39m.
- Website
- en.aegeanair.com
Flights from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 24m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–200
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Wednesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–260
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Zurich Airport via Athens International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 42m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–260
Flights from Athens International Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–210
Flights from Athens International Airport to Zurich Airport via Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–120
Flights from Rhodes International Airport to Zurich Airport via Athens International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 58m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–390
Flights from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to Stuttgart Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–210
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 24m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 60–200
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 80–320
Flights from Athens International Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–210
Flights from Rhodes International Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 180–370
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to Basel via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 40m
- When
- Wednesday, Saturday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–300
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Basel via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 27m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–350
Flights from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to Stuttgart Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 70–380
- Website
- flyedelweiss.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 160–320
Flights from Rhodes International Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 180–370
- Website
- airserbia.com
Flights from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to Zurich Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 57m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–180
Flights from Rhodes International Airport to Zurich Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 15m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–240
Flights from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to Stuttgart Airport via Belgrade
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–310
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Basel via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 120–430
Flights from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to Zurich Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–330
Flights from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to Stuttgart Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 95–360
- Website
- comlux.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–700
Flights from Rhodes International Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 110–330
- Website
- flexflight.dk
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 100–700
Flights from Rhodes International Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 120–850
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 110–200
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Basel
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 85–250
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 40–140
Flights from Rhodes International Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- CHF 90–260
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Thessaloniki Airport Makedonia to Stuttgart Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–210
- Phone
- 14511
- Website
- hellenictrain.gr
Train from Athens to Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 12m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–45
- Website
- https://www.hellenictrain.gr/en
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Luzern to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–90
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Zürich HB to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 29–85
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +41 58 580 70 70
- Website
- sob.ch
Train from Luzern to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–45
- Schedules at
- sob.ch
- Phone
- +43 (0)5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Budapest-Keleti to Zuerich Hb
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 40m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 120–190
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
- *
- CHF 120–190
- Phone
- +49 (0) 7531 915109
- info@sbb-deutschland.de
- Website
- sbb-deutschland.de
Train from Zürich HB to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 8–10
- Schedules at
- sbb-deutschland.de
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Zürich HB to Basel SBB
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 14–35
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Stuttgart Hbf to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 54 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 13–35
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Basel Bad Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 30–75
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 711 400 534 44
- stuttgart@arverio.de
- Website
- arverio-bw.de
Train from Stuttgart Hbf to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 13–25
- Schedules at
- arverio-bw.de
- 2nd Class Ticket
- CHF 13–16
- 1st Class Ticket
- CHF 17–25
- Phone
- +49 711 400 534 44
- stuttgart@arverio.de
- Website
- arverio-by.de
Train from Stuttgart Hbf to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 57 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 12–18
- Schedules at
- arverio-by.de
- Phone
- +49 711 2092-7087
- Website
- regional.bahn.de
Train from Stuttgart Hbf to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 13–20
- Schedules at
- regional.bahn.de
- Phone
- +49 731 1550-0
- servicecenter@dbregiobus-rab.de
- Website
- meine-rab.de
Train from Stuttgart Hbf to Karlsruhe Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 59 min
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 10–14
- Schedules at
- meine-rab.de
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Basel Bad Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 8m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 19–45
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof to Basel Bad Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 27m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–55
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +383 44 162 498
- info@barilevaturist.com
- Website
- web.facebook.com
Bus from Thessaloníki to Pristina
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 58m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 16–21
- Website
- https://web.facebook.com/BarilevaTuristKosova
- Phone
- + 383 (0) 44 542 029
- info@sharrtravel.com
- Website
- sharrtravel.com
Bus from Thessaloníki to Pristina
- Ave. Duration
- 5h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 19
- Website
- https://www.sharrtravel.com
- Phone
- +38349112555
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Thessaloníki to Pristina
- Ave. Duration
- 7h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 19
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- fertours3@gmail.com
Bus from Pristina to Luzern, Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 51m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Schedules at
- https://www.facebook.com/fertourstravelagency
- Phone
- 0030 2108219900
- vsiamos@otenet.gr
- Website
- siamostours.com
Bus from Thessaloniki to Budapest Hotel Platanus
- Ave. Duration
- 15h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 65–100
- Schedules at
- siamostours.com
- Phone
- +2105203350
- Website
- top-lines.gr
Bus from Athens to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 17m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 42
- Schedules at
- top-lines.gr
- Phone
- +355 68 407 6607
- komatastours.al@gmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Athens to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 16m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 47
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +355 67 604 2191
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Athens to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 8m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- autobus.al
- Phone
- +355 69 617 8170
- diamanttravel88@gmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Basel, Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 22m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +30 2310 500111
- info@ktelthes.gr
- Website
- ktelthes.gr
Bus from Athens, Leoforou Kifisou - KTEL to Thessaloniki Monastiriou
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 8–50
- Website
- https://ktelthes.gr/en/
- Phone
- +389 2 240 2528
- ruleturs@sas.com.mk
- Website
- ruleturs.mk
Bus from Thessaloníki to Skopje, Transporten Centar
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 33
- Schedules at
- ruleturs.mk
- Phone
- +389 42 217 370
- durmotours@yahoo.com
- Website
- durmotours.com.mk
Bus from Skopje, Transporten Centar to Basel, Bahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 56m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- CHF 55–90
- Schedules at
- durmotours.com.mk
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